The outcrop (1900-07-26)

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THE OUTCROP.

Pablished every Thursday
W. P. EVANS, Ed!torand Publisher.

A Weekly Journal published every Thursday
in the interests of North Bust Kootenay Dist ict
Waking close connection with all mails Ni iw
PSUBACRIPTION RATES, $8.00 per year in
advance; foreign countrys & 00

ADVERTISING RATES
per colurn tueh per month; Crown Grant

notices $10; legal and local adeas cents perline | tion of business we would call
their attention to the faet
Changes of advertiaments must te in thin] that many olour soldier bi WS,
South Africa fighting
his for their pote:

fret insertion and 1 cents foreach suuscqucul
insertion

fice not latter than Monday

now in

Hirth, marriage and death notices inserted

JOB DEPARTMENT: Oar Job Deparunent! Of miner
isthe best equipped printing oMee Mi Nast

Kootenay and isprepared to do neat, artistic Vinee, nid in justice to them

One price toall |

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printing ata reasonable price
Nail orders receive prompt attention

CORRESPONDENTS We invite correspon
dence on any subject of interest to the ge heral | 1 nt
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pactnt and desite ® regalar correspondent atl] nen
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‘ry potatin the District Laowtl cases the | allowing
bs ia Hide name of writer must accompany the |

Misnuseript, not necessarily for publicatio at from theirannual assessment

pwork for at least the present

Vatas a guarantee of youd faith

‘orrespondence with reference to any matte 2
Tidt bas appearedein Another paper must first] your
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THE OUTCROP,
CANTERBURY,
North Bast Kootenay, B.C.

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1000.

DO BIG ASSESSMENT WORK

Our statement of last week
that a number of prospectors |
were assessment,
work that did net ne “arly ;
reach the requirements of the:
law has brought forth con-
siderable comment among the,

recording

holders of claims. Of course
there are a few who elaim|
that it is no one’s business as
to what they do or do not do,

but the majority make: their
kick the other way and com-

plain that it isunfairto allow,
a half dozen men to hold 40
or 50 claims and do little or

no work while conscientious

inen are obliged to do thei

full amount. We agree with |
these latter and will a

every opportunity to

the honest prospector aban
deliberately
swear to. false statements.
There is alaw that if put into
force would place
for aterm of vears where they

upooany who

would be breaking rock con-
tinuously and which should
be applied. It is hardly to
be expected that any indi- Summer
vidual would undertake to
bring these
would be
doing the country a service if
they would, What is requir-

and still anv one

ed is a Government inspector
Whose duty it would be to
Visit the claims and enforce
the law. One inspector forthe
whole of British Columbia
would be sufficient,
only Visit a district oceasion-
ally and by making a few
examples would put an effe

ual damper on

whiner atts” COLUMBIA HOUSE

law. This district is no ex-
ception, the entire Provinet™
is infested with this elass of
men. Itis not only unfair to
honest men but is a wrong to
the whole country as it re-
tards the development of our
Not only
dothese men commit a breech
of the law but they are doing
themselves an injustice, for if
they would do their
properly their chances of
making a sale would be much
better,

We have no desire tod yan

The Leading

mineral resources

injustice to any prospector,
but are ever anxious ta asist
in any way, and wher any
man finds a legitimate reason

for pot being able to do his

k we sha

itake up the matter and du all’
‘we can to assist him in get-
‘ting his rights.
Do big assessments and vor
Will not regret it.
———Eaaee

an acknowledgment
of their services: the Govern-
Hould pass a measure

‘\nion KHoicl, i GWEC

Every Description “sk: ¥i

such men Dotted Swiss,

men to justice A’ complete line of

STETSON HATS
H. G. PARSON, Yaa

Honeod Alexander Block,

Hotel in Golden

Choices Liquors an Cigars. 2

Work send your Mail Orders for

Gee VW". eb bb DLO Roan,

| be the first to Golden,

THE OUTCROP, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1900.

' winged a. ©.

that the Provincial
Lewislature

Display ads, $2.00 assembled

has once more
for the

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transac.

Have Equipped themselves with the Largest and Most Complete

STOCK OF General Merchandise

are owhers

Ve laimsin this Pro-

In the Windermere Mining Distriet and making their) oor

Mammoth Establishment at oe

Headquarters for all branches of Mining ant Pr: specting Sapplies.

People irtending to locate in

Athalmer,

C's huey
them exemption anterbury,

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Peterborough

Mining Men coming into the Windermere

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Lowest Estimates Rendered to Uv
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District to Develop Properti j will find it to theiradvantage

to write forour prices on

Having our own Freight boats we def either at. the

Lumber
Miil or Delivered in any

of the above towns.

Highest Prices Did fi me

bie hee ta

The Elk Park Ranché&
S.T.Co., td.

PETERBOROUGH, 5.6, ATHALMER, - - B.C,

FPRVESESPPSS Fo

Headquarters for

REAL ESTATE A

Deeds, Conveyances, M

Travellers,
Prospectors
“Mining Men.

CPERPESEED
WM. A. SKELTON, Proprietor.

Dry Geeds

Documents D

Accounts Collected Con
Mining P

Correspor

Post Office address:
WINDERMERE an

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Indian Linen, Silk Zephyrs, Blouse Sateen,

VEE SPEFEPEPOE STEP SESEESD PESEETZE

and) Prospectors,
Seoft of the

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Organdie Muslins, Book Muslin, Cretonne Net, 3 : 0
Cambray Net. Spotted Net, Brussels Net, & = Headquarters for : 6

Victoria Lawn, Linen Lawn, + Travellers 4

Satin Ribbons, 3 4

Underwear, Parasols and Umbrellas, 4 Mining Men :
PESO T OCTETS U ON & $ We are prepared to furnish

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Finest
Quality

Having on the range over

300
Steers

expected in a few days.

Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. ~
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Rree Pasture.

na Saddle Horses for Sale or Hire.

General Merchant, Suse ChanuninLe |

GOLDEN, B.C.' |

SAOPOOAOee NOOSA PeOODeROeAeneanenennnnnaneens te pick from. Mail orders
ES bem receive our careful and

prompt attention,
GOLDEN, 6. C. If vou want 1 GOOD FIT in

Ready-Made Clothing

cull at WARREN’S.

Seo t

We make

supplying Mines and

Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Men il Specialty of

HOT AND COLD BATIDS Con-

tractors

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The Elk
Park Raneh &
S. T. Co., Limited.

ATHALMER, b.C,

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The Finest Range of
CLOTHING ==

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DRUGS,

Stationcry,
Confectionery

Ever shown in Golden at
C. A. WARREN’S

GOLDEN, B.C.

and General Sundries to “ist ootenay,

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LUMBER.

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‘Twae one dark night on Lac Champlain, BARRISTER,
The wind she blow, blow, hlow, SOLICITOR
When de crew of de scow Jule le Plant NOTARY PUBLIC.

Get seare and run below,

For the Wind she blow like hurricane, PETERBOROUGH,
Bimeby she blow some more North East Kootenay, British ( ‘olumbiac
When de scow buss upon Lac C hi hart vin & ‘i
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One half mile ont from shore -ARVEY MceCA RT ni &
De captain she walk on de front deck |

She walk on de hind deck, too;

PINKHAM, |

A en |

She call de crew crom up de hole, Barristers and Solicitors. |

She call de cook also, GEO.S. MeCarter, JLA,HARVEY, |

Revelstoke, B.C, Fort Steele, B.C.
A.M. PINKHAM,

Rooms, Alexander Block, Golden, B.C.

De cook bis name was Rosa,
He's come from Montreal,

Was chambermaid on a lnaiber barge
On dat big Lachine canal,

RR IBERT ELLIOTT, M.D.,

De wind she blow from nor’eass, wess,

De sou’ wind she blow, too, oy ; |
When Rosa say, SOb, captain, PHYSICIAN AND |
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Whatever shall ldo? SURGEON.

De captrin she’s trow ds hank, | PETERBOROUGH,
) ‘ ni ist dl ee | : si ;
Bat still dat seow she's drilt, Raat Roatenay, Lritish Columbia. |

For de crew can’t pass on dat shore,

Because he lose dat skiff. :

Te AS O'BRIEN,

De night was dark, like one black cat,
De waves run high and fass,
When de captain took poor Rosa ee ROY BRAGA.
Y » mas NOTARY PUBLIC,
And lash her to the mass. CONVEYANCER, ETC,
Office in Upper Columbia Navigation &
Tramway Company’s Building,

When de captain put de life preserve
Aad he jump into de hee,
And say, good-bye my Rosa, dear,

THE OUTCROP, T

Arrived

as a *enav if ’ We N by j
I yo down for your sack. ast Kootenay, GOLDEN B.C
Nest morning, very hearly, |
About half past two, three, four, | E J. SCOVIL, J. P,,
De captain, cook and wood scow e
Lay corpuses dn dat shore. | NOTARY PUBLIC.

For de w she’s blow like hurricane "
For de wind sh oe a ’ | Deeds, Convevances, Mortgayes and all

other Legal Documents drawn and
ak ‘ attested,
One halt a mile from shore, | :
Accounts Collected,
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MORAL. Books Audited.

Pretty soon she’s blows some more,
Forde scow she buss npon Lae Champlain

N { scow sailor mans, ss : ‘
Row, @ligond wood met i Ss Real Estate and Windermere Mines.

Take warning by dat storm,

bd

1 Car
Upholste

HURSDAY JULY 28, 1900,

T. LH TAYLOR, C.E. !

Provincial Land Surveyor.

Surveys of Mineral Claims, Townsiter, Road, Mince, Ete,

red

FURNITURE. |

;The Latest Styles in P

Dining-Room and

Room Suites.

roe
Arm Chairs,
Window Seats,
Lounges,
Writing Desks,
Fancy Rockers,
Verandah Chairs,
Kte., Ete.,

baa

lL Cax

| Gas Cb) Gi aisectralsaa tee etree

Aud yo and marry one nice French gall fire:
ive ive ¥ { alle,
And live on one nice farm. AGaHlent
Den de wind may blow like Ifurricane., | Insurance.
Lis a ne Oat PETERBOROUGH, British Columbia. |

You shan’t go drownon Lac beta eta
So loug you stay on shore ia

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VALIDITY OF GRUBSTAKING. iC F. NICHOLSON,

The validity of that form of prospect- | Of Kingston School of Mines
ing contract known as grubstaking hae | ASSAYER and

Deen repeatedly upheld by the
saysthe mining and scientific Press. |
The word itself has no double meaning | withont charge
vbout it, and like most mining terms, Three years experience in Kootenay
indicates exactly what is intended—Viz: district.

| General and special information furn-
oa ; "| ished parties concerning the Windermere
nish money and supplies to his who is | pistriet.
thus enabled to lool for aud tind mining Mining Properties Examined and Re-
ported upon,

a partnership between those who fur-

prospects, each to share in the profits or |
successes as agreed. Itisn’t exactly a}
“partnership,” it is a sort of venture, Or | mineral of the District.

adventure, where one furnishes the grub

und stakes the other who supplies the | Office Peterboro Townsite Co.’s Building,
nae. Though the agreement Is not re- PETERBOROUGH,

quired to be a written one, enc h party to |

it justly expects the other to du as he | Fast Kootenay, British Columbia.
agrees, and, usuaily, the responsibility

ends there. When a prospetor locates a

Mine Comes aquestion of tenancy 1 com.

mon, with allits attendant rights and

l Hig 4 y
responsibilities. li during the time fp i
ageed upon the pros ector finds anything #e, WE ULNSE de

and locates it in his own name, his asso- |
viate, the one who grubstaked him, can

claim and enforce compliance with the PETERBCRO.
terms of the agresment, noton the basis

Tobacco,
ofa partnership, but according to the
terms of the contract. If during the Cigars,
life of the co tract the outfitter tails to Confectionery.
keep his part of the bargain such failure
atonce absolves the prospector from Fresh Fruit, |
lurther observance Of its provisions — 9 Ter
And, at the game time, during the life of
the gontract, either of the two parties |
ean bayor sell mining chains with his

| Baths Hot and Cold,

own money and at his own risk without
the other having anything to do with it
in any way

All this applies to grubstake, pure

and simple. Thatis about as At, as ‘Purity
robstake contracts usually yo} a

man is hired to get a mine, and is paid and
wages from the start, with a promise of

raise in his pay oran interest in whi at | | Knowledge.

he might acquire, thatis notagrubstake,

and the relations between the two are | Purity of ingredients and knowledge
those of cmployer or employee, Any

agreement extending beyond discovery of how they must be compounded is

Bre ig BoP rab oe Pg ee Ri Pk

courte, | ANALYTICAL CHEMIST,

Minerals identified for prospectors |

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jSLard~«x7are
Prospectors and others are requested |

to bring in samples for our exhibit of

wid Jocation takes the grubstake con- | the reason why the best physicians |

tract into a different domain, and makes
send us their prescriptions to be
itimere of ainining partnership, So far

as property rights are concerned, in the filled
! rrulopt a v r s
ordinary grubstake contract, both partic They know we have only the purest
are merely tenants in common in what ‘

drugs and chemivals, and being

ever property may beaequired while the
agreement Was in force, and neither par- qualified Pharmacists will fill phy-
iwhasthe right to bind the interest of
: | sicians prescriptions exactly as
the othe | :
There isn’ timuc style about grubstak - written or not at all

ing, nor are there any frills on its it ima
homely proposition with plenty of hard

work and a certain amount of olde{ash for.
joned Lonesty and integrity about ite! Weare constantly renewing our stock |
mutual risk in which each part Fives '
PONe PANY gine and ask for a share of your patron. |

the other a square deal, and neither is
supposed to be trying to yet the best of ave, feeling certain that it will be |
it. Pome ofthe best mining property t ‘ i

_. | ) dur advantage
in the United States is the resultof grab OA OUT BOSON AM
staking a prospector, and in these days ~
of scientific mining and metallurgy the ‘ - 728 ‘ |
prospector ise important a factor as Au, W. PIELD, ai 4 Giolden-|

ever,and giubstaking inay well beas oo... eo
aseratly considered as ever it was. FIELD & BEWS, Revelstoke.
Grubstuking 18 a pood juvestment toda
it was alwave a favorite fori of proce
cedure Withimine Operators alwaye on the
Jookout for Hew properties, prospects The Cutcrep
susceptible of belay iuade dite mies
lor mines are tiade just the sameas any las already broke into
other manufacture= and deserves con a High Grade chute of
rideration. Not every prospector is fit
to be yrubsetaked ; not every toan a pros JOB PRINTING
sector would take a grobstake from
et there are many prospectors who
doby coin, could make the venture | A Sample and

In short we give you just what you ask |

Mattresses, Pillows,

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a “ar Gude
Shelt

Including every
necessary for the

Ing ane mining T

fo}
Sar
Choice

G roce ric Ss <> Windermere District

fo}

) Rolls
d [a He Wall

ee iPaper ioe Liqu

Sereen Doors and Wi

to keep out mosquitoes,

Genuine Maple Syrup WINDER

from Quebec

New Carpets, Squares an
of all Sizes, Designs and
Muslin and Sash Curtains
New Bieyeles, Regula

Crackers, for

coh) vom

FUVECEEV ED

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© By Deo Derr
GENERAL
MERCHANT,

Golden,

arlor, |
Bed. |

R. S. GALLOP, |

MINING AGENT.—~~}

Mining properties bought and sold.

Reports and
Estimates

Furnished.
eo Assays in Gold, Silver,Copper and Lead.
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Ete. | Correspondence Solicited.
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Address:
Canterbury, East Kootenay, B.C.

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Prices, | ee
Brand | IZining Supp]
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Crown Grants obtained,
| PETERBOROUGH, lia AP & &(/()
East Kootenay. B.C. Y.

Gencral
Merchants,

Athalmer, - - B.G.

09900000

Groceries

Tinware

Hardware

Men's Fearnishings

Miners Supplies

Giant Powder
Caps and Fuse.
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‘Fresh Butter

and Eggs

Always on hand.

Phe quickest and only
ComPrortTaBLe Route

into the

Windermere Distriet.

ome

Logger

‘6 é
GQolurbia

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Navigation &

i=steaxrrrer

chess

Leaves Windermere at 5 a.m.

Sundays and
Wednesdays

Calling at =
Canterbury,
Athalmer and

Peterborough

And all Columbia River points, Con-
nec ting with West bound Canadian
in same days.

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Just reccived

090

hole Acents for Canton

4 and +f
KO\ Calif

Mining Men and Prospe
supplies from us will be

B, Cc. Free of charge for deliver

ia. Yt ware ' ¢
Prop: tet] udermere & Go